German Open badminton 2024
Indian badminton players Aakarshi Kashyap and Sathish Kumar Karunakaran entered the women’s and men’s mates alternate round, independently at the German Open Badminton 2024 in Mulheim on Wednesday.
Kashyap, 43rd in the badminton rankings, defeated world. 79 Polina Buhrova of Ukraine 23- 21, 17- 21, 11- 21 to enter the round of 16 in women’s mates.
Kashyap won the Uganda International Challenge last week and produced a spirited fightback to down her opponent in one hour and three twinkles. The Indian badminton player will face world no. 22 Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark in the round of 16 of German Open badminton 2024.
In the men’s mates, world no. 50 Karunakaran upset the 45th-ranked Misha Zilberman of Israel 21- 18, 19- 21, 21- 19 in one hour and 22 twinkles. He’ll take on world no. 42 Nhat Nguyen of Ireland in the round of 16 German Open badminton 2024.
World. 69 Sankar Subramanian, who won his two matches in the qualifiers to make the main draw, made a first-round exit, losing to 22nd-ranked Brian Yang of Canada 21- 15, 18- 21, 13- 21.
In the mixed doubles, Ashith Surya and Amrutha Pramuthesh went down to Malaysian brace Goh Soon Huat and Shevon Jemie Lai 21- 12, 21- 11.
In the women’s doubles, India’s Rutaparna and Swetaparna Panda, world. 51, lost to the 439th-ranked German brace of Amelie Lehmann and Cara Siebrecht 21- 17, 10- 21, 21- 14.
latterly in the day, world no. 75 Tanya Hemanth, in women’s mates, was ousted by 12th-ranked Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand after losing the contest 21- 15, 21- 13.
Sathish Kumar Karunakaran- Aadya Variyath, in mixed doubles, suffered a 23- 21, 21- 17 defeat against third-seeded brace Hong Kong China brace Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet.
The German Open 2024, a BWF Super 300 match, is the sixth event on the 2024 badminton timetable and offers qualifying ranking points for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The qualification window for badminton started on May 1 last time and will end in April this time.